Quotes About Society

There's a whole generation growing up thinking...the government exists to care for them.

Kierkegaard's analysis of this "fear of freedom" is an intriguing one, pursued and expanded on by philosophers as different as Jean-Paul Sartre and Erich Fromm (1900–80). It can make individuals and whole societies "inauthentic". People, as individuals or en masse, are too often happy to "escape" this fear by retreating into an obedience to ideologies dictated by others.

Human beings seem reluctant to accept that morality is something invented by themselves and so tend to legitimize moral rules by mythologizing their origins:

The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life." T

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

The thinner the eyebrow, the crazier the woman.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

After almost ten years as a Denver cop, Sam was sick of seeing what humanity was really capable of. He

They want to subject society and the economy to a prolonged period of stress and fear, right?

even the finest examples of men and women are capable of horrific acts under the right circumstances,

no matter how much we want to believe that our world is just and fair, it isn't. At least in some cases, the only way to have justice is to leave fairness at the door on the way in.

After almost ten years as a Denver cop, Sam was sick of seeing what humanity was really capable of. He had grown up reading cop stories, always seeing how the cops would save the day, watching them rescue the innocent and punish the guilty every week on TV, until he finally knew that he had to be one himself.

He loved mankind, it was people he couldn't stand.

Noah, Noah," Monique said. "Crime is nothing. Crime is something that will always be a part of society.

Give the world a common enemy, and they will happily surrender their liberties," Gary said softly. "That was one of the things Kissinger said.

as I weaved and wended my dappled way toward Jackson Lane, I felt certain nobody here would ever commit an impolite crime, and whatever crimes they did commit, they would never be so vulgar as to get caught.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

being white is not about skin color, but security. It means you are protected because you are a member of the majority culture.

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

If you want to learn about patriarchal families, you don't ask the father, you ask the mother; then maybe you will learn something.

To a large extent, that's the way empires work. Internal class war is a significant element of empire.

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating [extinguishing] Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.25 Dr.

Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.